SVP, Account Director
New York, NY 
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Posted 4 days ago
Job Description

You are both the lead and the lifeline for our clients. No challenge is too hard nor too simple, you drive the business built on integrity and trust. Trust with our clients and trust with your team. You bring a point of view and pragmatism while driving innovation and creative excellence. In short, you are our partner in making our clients, and subsequently us, a success.

Leads and ensures the agency is delivering on necessary expectations. Manage the service expectations of the client through open and honest discussions between agency and client management. Builds and maintains a solid client relationship based on mutual trust and respect through the creation of a customized team. Partners with Creative, Strategy and Operations Leads to deliver work that is innovative, on strategy and within budget and timing parameters.

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for profitable and incremental growth by adding new divisions or assignments.

* Manages the day to day senior clients

* Participates in monthly executive client creative reviews

* Ensures successful development and completion of the client engagement

* Maintains a superior relationship with all departments in the agency and understands the strategic goals of the account and contributes to their communication to the agency team

* Ensures the agency is giving its highest quality, meeting client objectives and also leading the category

* Maintain stellar client performance reviews and manage team attrition

* Responsible for managing your direct report staff and junior account team, ensuring their continued development.

Tasks:

* Builds client business - Identifies short term and long term opportunities, business building as well as learning

* Seeks out new assignments from client

* Develops in collaboration with finance and department heads yearly SOW

* Reports on account performance

* Identifies best and new practices, which drive efficiency and effectiveness of the agency to deliver against the clients objectives

* Develops new initiatives through thorough understanding of the client's content area

* Aggressively pursues new ways to contribute to overall agency and client revenue and profitability

Qualifications:

* 15+ years of Agency experience, including 8+ years of management experience

* Excellent communication skills, including written, oral and presentation

* Must have demonstrable experience working on and leading digital programs including website development, content strategies, digital advertising programs, mobile, social, and metrics-based optimization.

* Foundational knowledge of integrated marketing solutions, including TV, print advertising, digital, sales collateral, direct mail, promotion, etc. This candidate will understand and be able to take a leadership role in developing integrated marketing solutions to address Client needs.

* Highly organized and creative problem solving skills

* Thinker and team builder

* Detail oriented

* Must have strong interpersonal skills to foster optimal department relationships

* Ability to interact with, and manage clients with decision making responsibility

* Savvy with budgets and finance

* Ability to translate business and marketing requirements into viable solutions

* Minimum of a Bachelors degree or equivalent business experience

About MRM

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency that delivers transformative creative solutions at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way, to allow for greater collaboration and velocity-all to the service of helping businesses grow meaningful relationships with people. MRM is part of McCann Worldgroup and the Interpublic Group of companies (NYSE: IPG), and spans 35 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com.

We love our diverse workplace! MRM is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.

The salary range for this position is $200,000 to $230,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
15+ years
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